THE ORGAN THIEVES: THE SHOCKING STORY OF THE FIRST HEART TRANSPLANT IN THE SEGREGATED SOUTH Chip Jones. New York, NY: Gallery Books, 2020, 389 pages.

On May 25, 1968, the heart of Bruce Tucker was transplanted into Joseph G. Klett at the Medical College of Virginia (MCV) Hospital. This was recorded as the world's 16th heart transplant during a time when there was a feverish race for a successful heart transplant program. What made this transplant concerning is that Mr. Tucker was a working-class Black man, Mr. Klett was a successful White business man, and Mr. Tucker's family was unaware of the "donation" at the time that it occurred. Mr. Tucker suffered a traumatic head injury after falling off of a 3-foot wall the day before. Mr. Tucker's brother, William, sued MCV and lost at the hands of an all-White jury. The events surrounding the transplant and the subsequent legal case are detailed in The Organ Thieves.